Dive Brief:
- U.S. News & World Report has released its 2015 list of the best graduate schools.
- The rankings are categorized into 11 disciplines—business, law, education, engineering, medicine, health, science, library and information studies, social sciences and humanities, health, public affairs and fine arts—along with specialty rankings in each of the categories.
- Among the winners: Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Stanford University are tied for first for the ranking’s best full-time MBA programs. The Haas School of Business at University of California—Berkeley is the top-ranked part-time MBA program.
Dive Insight:
If you’re choosing your graduate school, or undergraduate program, based on its ranking on a list, then you may want to reconsider your educational priorities. But the listing definitely packs some PR power for the fortunate schools who move into the upper rankings. Among the institutions receiving the U.S. News & World Report most-favored status: Yale University and Harvard as the No. 1 and No. 2 law schools, respectively, unchanged from the 2014 list; Harvard and Stanford as the first and second best schools for medical school for research; Johns Hopkins University as the best education school; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the best engineering school.
